Kal

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kal: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kal: Recorded since 1997, it reached #392 in 2020, and it stood at #3,256 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#392highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2859
1998	#1642
1999	#2425
2000	#3036
2001	#3134
2002	#2254
2003	#3467
2004	#2304
2005	#3849
2007	#2435
2009	#3744
2010	#4678
2011	#3300
2012	#4805
2013	#1706
2014	#1935
2015	#2319
2016	#3478
2017	#2052
2018	#1875
2019	#1986
2020	#2682
2021	#2125
2022	#3449
2024	#3254
2025	#3256

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 26 of the 29 years from 1997 to 2025.

In 2022: #657 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #3449 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2859 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #3256 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Kal appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 165 births with the name.

Kal across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kal's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#1642 (1998)	#3256 (2025)	26 of 29	165 (1997–2025)	13 (2013)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#615 (2015)	#601 (2016)	#657 (2022)	5 of 8	19 (2015–2022)	4 (2015)

Kal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kal in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	3 of 10	5
2000s	34	8 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	83	10 of 10	8
2020s	34	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #392 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Kal's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	male	#3256	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3254	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2125	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1986	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1875	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1706	13	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#615	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Kal is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Kal, between 1997 and 2025, in 26 of those 29 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1997–2025	26	#1642 in 1998
Republic of Ireland	2015–2022	5	#601 in 2016
Northern Ireland	2020	1	#392 in 2020

Its high point came 22 years earlier in England and Wales (1998) than in Northern Ireland (2020).

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #392, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Kalam · #1367, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Amos · #392, 30y
Kyan · #392, 30y
Quinton · #392, 29y
Ayomikun · #393, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Amos · #392, 30y
Forrest · #392, 25y
Kyan · #392, 30y
Quinton · #392, 29y

Kal was ranked #392 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aedan#392
Ahmad#392
Ahmed#392
Alfred#392

What is known about Kal

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1997–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #392 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kal

Kal at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kal across 2 official records

Kal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Kal is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kal

What is known about Kal

Kal at a glance

Kal across 2 official records

Kal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kal